Rome

As a Prix de Rome winner, I was given the opportunity to spend nine months living, studying and traveling in Rome, Italy, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Croatia and Japan painting, drawing and studying the remnant of the classical tradition in art and architecture.
Day in and day out I walked the streets, the piazzas, the churches, the museums, the gardens, the monuments, the public and private buildings, galleries and collections searching for answers, discovering new questions, and all the time immersing myself in the language of Classicism.
What you see here are samples of sketches and recordings, some quickly noted and some more deliberated. Each fills me with memories and lessons inexpressible in words but have added to my reservoir of knowledge and familiarity of the tradition, but above all an appreciation unsurpassed.

2016

Architecture, Drawing, Painting

Prophet Isaiah Freco by Raphael at Sant'Agostino, Rome

One of the Angels on Ponte Sant'Angelo. Bernini. He hold the sop of Vinegar.

Pantheon Cappriccio, Anunciation of the Christ child staged in this temple of temples.

Tholos in Villa Borghese

Triumph of Galatea, Fresco by Raphael

Bernini designed chapel in Sienna Cathedral

Ceiling figure ormanment, San Marcello al Corso, Rome

Florentine Pieta by Michelangelo, at the Accademia, Florence. By far among my favorite of his Pieta's.

Facade order of the Oratory of Santissimo Crocisfisso. At first glance it looks like normal doric order until one studies closely it reveals a playfulness in form unprecedented. More than likely from Michelangelo's atelier, suggested also by interior frescoes.